| aphonic | (adjective) being without sound through injury or illness and thus incapable of all but whispered speech | Synonyms: voiceless |
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| aphorise | (verb) speak or write in aphorisms | Synonyms: aphorize |
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| aphorism | (noun) a short pithy instructive saying | Synonyms: apophthegm, apothegm |
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| aphorist | (noun) someone who formulates aphorisms or who repeats aphorisms | - |
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| aphoristic | (adjective) containing aphorisms or maxims | Synonyms: axiomatic |
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| (adjective) terse and witty and like a maxim | Synonyms: apothegmatic, epigrammatic |
| aphorize | (verb) speak or write in aphorisms | Synonyms: aphorise |
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| aphotic | (adjective) lacking light; especially not reached by sunlight | - |
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| aplacophoran | (noun) deep-water wormlike mollusks lacking calcareous plates on the body but having fine slimy spicules on the covering mantle | Synonyms: solenogaster |
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| aquaphobia | (noun) a morbid fear of drowning | - |
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| aquaphobic | (adjective) abnormally afraid of water | Synonyms: hydrophobic |
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| arachnophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of spiders | - |
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| archbishop | (noun) a bishop of highest rank | - |
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| archbishopric | (noun) the territorial jurisdiction of an archbishop | - |
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| archosaur | (noun) extinct reptiles including: dinosaurs, plesiosaurs, pterosaurs, ichthyosaurs, thecodonts | Synonyms: archosaurian, archosaurian reptile |
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| archosaurian | (adjective) of or relating to reptiles of the subclass Archosauria | - |
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| (noun) extinct reptiles including: dinosaurs, plesiosaurs, pterosaurs, ichthyosaurs, thecodonts | Synonyms: archosaur, archosaurian reptile |
| armhole | (noun) a hole through which you put your arm and where a sleeve can be attached | - |
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| arsehole | (noun) vulgar slang for anus | Synonyms: arse, asshole, bunghole |
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| artichoke | (noun) a thistlelike flower head with edible fleshy leaves and heart | Synonyms: globe artichoke |
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| (noun) Mediterranean thistlelike plant widely cultivated for its large edible flower head | Synonyms: artichoke plant, Cynara scolymus, globe artichoke |
| ashore | (adverb) towards the shore from the water | - |
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| asphodel | (noun) any of various chiefly Mediterranean plants of the genera Asphodeline and Asphodelus having linear leaves and racemes of white or pink or yellow flowers | - |
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| asshole | (noun) vulgar slang for anus | Synonyms: arse, arsehole, bunghole |
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| (noun) insulting terms of address for people who are stupid or irritating or ridiculous | Synonyms: bastard, cocksucker, dickhead, mother fucker, motherfucker, prick, shit, SOB, son of a bitch, whoreson |
| astraphobia | (noun) a morbid fear of thunder and lightning | - |
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| athodyd | (noun) a simple type of jet engine; must be launched at high speed | Synonyms: atherodyde, flying drainpipe, ramjet, ramjet engine |
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| author | (noun) writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay) | Synonyms: writer |
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| (noun) someone who originates or causes or initiates something | Synonyms: generator, source |
| (verb) be the author of | - |
| authoress | (noun) a woman author | - |
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| authorial | (adjective) of or by or typical of an author | Synonyms: auctorial |
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| authorisation | (noun) the act of conferring legality or sanction or formal warrant | Synonyms: authorization, empowerment |
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| (noun) the power or right to give orders or make decisions | Synonyms: authority, authorization, dominance, potency, say-so |
| (noun) official permission or approval | Synonyms: authority, authorization, sanction |
| (noun) a document giving an official instruction or command | Synonyms: authorization, mandate |
| authorise | (verb) grant authorization or clearance for | Synonyms: authorize, clear, pass |
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| (verb) give or delegate power or authority to | Synonyms: authorize, empower |
| authorised | (adjective) endowed with authority | Synonyms: authoritative, authorized |
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| authoriser | (noun) an authority who authorizes (people or actions) | Synonyms: authorizer |
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| authoritarian | (adjective) expecting unquestioning obedience | Synonyms: dictatorial, overbearing |
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| (adjective) characteristic of an absolute ruler or absolute rule; having absolute sovereignty | Synonyms: autocratic, despotic, dictatorial, tyrannic, tyrannical |
| (noun) a person who behaves in a tyrannical manner | Synonyms: dictator |
| authoritarianism | (noun) a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | Synonyms: absolutism, Caesarism, despotism, dictatorship, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny |
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| authoritative | (adjective) endowed with authority | Synonyms: authorised, authorized |
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| (adjective) having authority or ascendancy or influence | Synonyms: important |
| (adjective) of recognized authority or excellence | Synonyms: definitive |
| authoritatively | (adverb) in an authoritative and magisterial manner | Synonyms: magisterially |
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| authorities | (noun) the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit | Synonyms: government, regime |
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| authority | (noun) the power or right to give orders or make decisions | Synonyms: authorisation, authorization, dominance, potency, say-so |
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| (noun) official permission or approval | Synonyms: authorisation, authorization, sanction |
| (noun) freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities | Synonyms: assurance, confidence, self-assurance, self-confidence, sureness |
| (noun) an authoritative written work | - |
| (noun) an administrative unit of government | Synonyms: agency, bureau, federal agency, government agency, office |
| (noun) an expert whose views are taken as definitive | - |
| (noun) (usually plural) persons who exercise (administrative) control over others | - |
| authorization | (noun) the act of conferring legality or sanction or formal warrant | Synonyms: authorisation, empowerment |
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| (noun) the power or right to give orders or make decisions | Synonyms: authorisation, authority, dominance, potency, say-so |
| (noun) official permission or approval | Synonyms: authorisation, authority, sanction |
| (noun) a document giving an official instruction or command | Synonyms: authorisation, mandate |
| authorize | (verb) grant authorization or clearance for | Synonyms: authorise, clear, pass |
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| (verb) give or delegate power or authority to | Synonyms: authorise, empower |
| authorized | (adjective) endowed with authority | Synonyms: authorised, authoritative |
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| authorizer | (noun) an authority who authorizes (people or actions) | Synonyms: authoriser |
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| authorship | (noun) the act of creating written works | Synonyms: composition, penning, writing |
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| (noun) the act of initiating a new idea or theory or writing | Synonyms: paternity |
| autochthon | (noun) the earliest known inhabitants of a region | - |
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| autochthonal | (adjective) originating where it is found | Synonyms: autochthonic, autochthonous, endemic, indigenous |
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| autochthonic | (adjective) originating where it is found | Synonyms: autochthonal, autochthonous, endemic, indigenous |
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| autochthonous | (adjective) of rocks, deposits, etc.; found where they and their constituents were formed | - |
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| (adjective) originating where it is found | Synonyms: autochthonal, autochthonic, endemic, indigenous |
| autochthony | (noun) nativeness by virtue of originating or occurring naturally (as in a particular place) | Synonyms: endemism, indigenousness |
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| automysophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of being dirty | - |
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| axerophthol | (noun) any of several fat-soluble vitamins essential for normal vision; prevents night blindness or inflammation or dryness of the eyes | Synonyms: A, antiophthalmic factor, vitamin A |
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| babyhood | (noun) the earliest state of immaturity | Synonyms: infancy |
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| (noun) the early stage of growth or development | Synonyms: early childhood, infancy |
| bachelorhood | (noun) the state of being an unmarried man | - |
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| (noun) the time of a man's life prior to marriage | - |
| backhoe | (noun) an excavator whose shovel bucket is attached to a hinged boom and is drawn backward to move earth | - |
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| bakehouse | (noun) a workplace where baked goods (breads and cakes and pastries) are produced or sold | Synonyms: bakery, bakeshop |
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| bakeshop | (noun) a workplace where baked goods (breads and cakes and pastries) are produced or sold | Synonyms: bakehouse, bakery |
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| ballyhoo | (noun) blatant or sensational promotion | Synonyms: hoopla, hype, plug |
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| (verb) advertize noisily or blatantly | - |
| barbershop | (noun) a shop where men can get their hair cut | - |
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| barrelhouse | (noun) a cheap drinking and dancing establishment | Synonyms: honky-tonk |
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| bathhouse | (noun) a building containing public baths | Synonyms: bagnio |
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| (noun) a building containing dressing rooms for bathers | Synonyms: bathing machine |
| batholite | (noun) large mass of intrusive igneous rock believed to have solidified deep within the earth | Synonyms: batholith, pluton, plutonic rock |
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| batholith | (noun) large mass of intrusive igneous rock believed to have solidified deep within the earth | Synonyms: batholite, pluton, plutonic rock |
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| batholithic | (adjective) of or relating to a batholith | Synonyms: batholitic |
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| batholitic | (adjective) of or relating to a batholith | Synonyms: batholithic |
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| bathometer | (noun) an instrument that measures the depth of water | Synonyms: bathymeter |
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| bathos | (noun) triteness or triviality of style | - |
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| (noun) a change from a serious subject to a disappointing one | Synonyms: anticlimax |
| (noun) insincere pathos | Synonyms: mawkishness |
| batrachomyomachia | (noun) a silly altercation | - |
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| bawdyhouse | (noun) a building where prostitutes are available | Synonyms: bagnio, bordello, brothel, cathouse, house of ill repute, house of prostitution, sporting house, whorehouse |
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| bedhop | (verb) be sexually active with more than one partner | Synonyms: bed-hop, sleep around |
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| behold | (verb) see with attention | Synonyms: lay eyes on |
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| beholden | (adjective) under a moral obligation to someone | - |
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| beholder | (noun) a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses | Synonyms: observer, perceiver, percipient |
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| beholding | (noun) perception by means of the eyes | Synonyms: seeing, visual perception |
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| behoove | (verb) be appropriate or necessary | Synonyms: behove |
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| behove | (verb) be appropriate or necessary | Synonyms: behoove |
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| bellhop | (noun) someone employed as an errand boy and luggage carrier around hotels | Synonyms: bellboy, bellman |
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| benthonic | (adjective) of or relating to or happening on the bottom under a body of water | Synonyms: benthal, benthic |
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| benthos | (noun) organisms (plants and animals) that live at or near the bottom of a sea, lake, river or stream | - |
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| (noun) a region including the bottom of the sea and the littoral zones | Synonyms: benthic division, benthonic zone |
| bighorn | (noun) wild sheep of mountainous regions of western North America having massive curled horns | Synonyms: bighorn sheep, cimarron, Ovis canadensis, Rocky Mountain bighorn, Rocky Mountain sheep |
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| billhook | (noun) a cutting tool with a sharp edge | Synonyms: bill |
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| birdhouse | (noun) a shelter for birds | - |
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| bishop | (noun) (chess) a piece that can be moved diagonally over unoccupied squares of the same color | - |
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| (noun) port wine mulled with oranges and cloves | - |
| (noun) a senior member of the Christian clergy having spiritual and administrative authority; appointed in Christian churches to oversee priests or ministers; considered in some churches to be successors of the twelve Apostles of Christ | - |
| bishopric | (noun) the territorial jurisdiction of a bishop | Synonyms: diocese, episcopate |
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| bishopry | (noun) the office and dignity of a bishop | Synonyms: episcopate |
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| blackthorn | (noun) erect and almost thornless American hawthorn with somewhat pear-shaped berries | Synonyms: Crataegus calpodendron, Crataegus tomentosa, pear haw, pear hawthorn |
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| (noun) a thorny Eurasian bush with plumlike fruits | Synonyms: Prunus spinosa, sloe |
| blockhouse | (noun) a stronghold that is reinforced for protection from enemy fire; with apertures for defensive fire | - |
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| bloodhound | (noun) a breed of large powerful hound of European origin having very acute smell and used in tracking | Synonyms: sleuthhound |
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| bloodshot | (adjective) (of an eye) reddened as a result of locally congested blood vessels; inflamed | - |
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| blowhole | (noun) a hole for the escape of gas or air | Synonyms: vent-hole, vent, venthole |
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| (noun) the spiracle of a cetacean located far back on the skull | - |
| boardinghouse | (noun) a private house that provides accommodations and meals for paying guests | Synonyms: boarding house |
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| boarhound | (noun) large hound used in hunting wild boars | - |
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| boathouse | (noun) a shed at the edge of a river or lake; used to store boats | - |
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| bondholder | (noun) a holder of bonds issued by a government or corporation | - |
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| bonhomie | (noun) a disposition to be friendly and approachable (easy to talk to) | Synonyms: affability, affableness, amiability, amiableness, geniality |
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| bookshop | (noun) a shop where books are sold | Synonyms: bookstall, bookstore |
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| boothose | (noun) protective stockings worn with or in place of boots | - |
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| boxershorts | (noun) underpants worn by men | Synonyms: boxers, drawers, shorts, underdrawers |
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| boxthorn | (noun) any of various shrubs or vines of the genus Lycium with showy flowers and bright berries | Synonyms: matrimony vine |
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| boyhood | (noun) the childhood of a boy | - |
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| broncho | (noun) an unbroken or imperfectly broken mustang | Synonyms: bronc, bronco |
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| bronchodilator | (noun) a drug that relaxes and dilates the bronchial passageways and improves the passages of air into the lungs | - |
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| bronchopneumonia | (noun) pneumonia characterized by acute inflammation of the walls of the bronchioles | Synonyms: bronchial pneumonia |
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| bronchoscope | (noun) a slender tubular instrument used to examine the bronchial tubes | - |
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